Yang Yan

Yang Yan (238-25 August 274) was Empress Consort of Jin from 265 to 274 as the wife of Sima Yan.

Biography
Yang Yan was the niece of Yang Jun and the cousin of Yang Zhi, and after a fortune teller foretold that she would have extraordinary honor, Sima Zhao had her wed his son Sima Yan. In 265 AD, Sima Yan founded Jin and made Yang Yan his Empress, and she gave birth to Sima Zhong, the crown prince. Sima Yan also let his wife choose his concubines for him, and she chose concubines with slender bodies, fair skin, and homely faces until she offended her husband by refusing to let a woman named Bian serve as a concubine, as the past three empresses had all been named Bian, and she felt that reducing a Bian to a concubine would be degrading. Yang Yan died in 274 at the age of 36, and her cousin Yang Zhi took her place as Empress.